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Mike Ferner

Mike Ferner is a writer from Ohio and former president of Veterans For Peace.

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14 February 2006
Winter of our discontent: 34-day fast  February 15 to March 20 at U.S. Capitol to end the Iraq war
Mike Ferner
Chicago – A 34 day, liquids-only fast to end the war against and occupation of Iraq will begin in Washington, D.C. on February 15.  Fast participants will...
20 January 2006
The war on dissent gets creepy
Mike Ferner
On New Year's Day, I decided to start 2006 out with a public protest against the war.  Little did I know how public it would become.

My younger...
26 December 2005
Beware Iraqization
Mike Ferner
I half-suspected NPR to exhume Henry Kissinger (he is dead, isn't he?) the other day when they did a promo about a story on "Iraqization," but no, they spared...
09 December 2005
Not even to save our lives
Mike Ferner
On a Thanksgiving visit home two years ago to his family in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Jim Loney tried to explain to his father why he wanted to go to Iraq...
23 November 2005
CIA’s “Torture Taxi” in the spotlight
Mike Ferner
Ft. Benning, GA – Sitting in a Georgia motel Saturday night, Kathy Kelly talked through a bad phone connection and a worse head cold to recount the previous...
16 November 2005
Parental guidance suggested
Mike Ferner
A rare moment of truth – several of them, actually – occurred at last week’s meeting of the Toledo Board of Education’s Policy Committee when school officials...

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